What is Kapacitor?
It is a native data processing engine for InfluxDB 1.x and is an integrated component in the InfluxDB 2.0 platform.
It can process both stream and batch data from InfluxDB, acting on this data in real-time via its programming language TICKscript.
Kapacitor is a tool in the Stream Processing category of a tech stack.
Who uses Kapacitor?
Companies
8 companies reportedly use Kapacitor in their tech stacks, including Kanteronstack, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Veris.
Developers
30 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Kapacitor.
Kapacitor's Features
- can process both stream and batch data
- acting on data in real-time
Kapacitor Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Kapacitor?
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
Apache Spark
Spark is a fast and general processing engine compatible with Hadoop data. It can run in Hadoop clusters through YARN or Spark's standalone mode, and it can process data in HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, and any Hadoop InputFormat. It is designed to perform both batch processing (similar to MapReduce) and new workloads like streaming, interactive queries, and machine learning.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
Telegraf
It is an agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. Design goals are to have a minimal memory footprint with a plugin system so that developers in the community can easily add support for collecting metrics.
